Summary
Murdo Aird is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Edinburgh with 13 years of experience delivering platform services at scale, currently leading engineering teams at Adobe. He has progressed from hands-on development and architecture roles into leadership positions across startups and enterprises, including VP of Operations and principal consulting roles, giving him a pragmatic mix of delivery, operations, and technical strategy. At Adobe he focuses on scaling the business by turning platform investments into measurable customer value and developer productivity. His background in applied computing and long tenure across consultancy, healthcare informatics, and cloud platforms means he often bridges product, engineering and operational concerns to get complex systems into production. An underappreciated strength is his continuity across teams and orgs—he repeatedly steps into maturing organisations and accelerates reliable delivery without sacrificing technical rigor.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Applied Computing, BSc, Applied Computing at University of Stirling